Career
De Sana"s photography has been described as "anti-art" in its approach to capturing images of the human body, in a manner ranging from "savagely explicit to purely symbolic"., William South. Burroughs wrote the introduction to his collection of photographs Submission which was self-published in 1980. His work includes the album cover for the Talking Heads album More Songs about Buildings and Food. De Sana was born in Detroit in 1950, but grew up in Atlanta.
He began to making photographs being a teen, mostly photographing his friends and acquaintances naked.
His early photographs were of his friends striking silly and sexy poses in houses and gardens. He moved to New York in 1973.
De Sana continued to picture the human body as the primary subject. He worked in black and white till 1980, when he began to experiment with color photography.
De Sana died in 1990 from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome related illness.
He had numerous solo exhibitions, including those in Wilkinson Gallery, London. Pat Hearn Gallery, New New York Galerie Jacques de Windt, Brussels and Museum of the Twentieth Century, Vienna, Austria.